Evening Classes for the Autumn Term

Nancy wants to work as a secretary in a French company．She will attend courses on _______．

A．Monday and Thursday     

B．Wednesday and Thursday

C．Monday and Wednesday   

D．Tuesday and Thursday

After reading the advertisement, one will choose the course on Car Repairs mainly because 

_______．

A．it takes a short time       

B．it helps grasp good skills of repairing cars

C．it needs less money       

D．it can make savings on car repairs

What information can we get from the text？

A．Most courses will last two hours．k+s-5#u 

B．Successful students can learn French．

C．Teachers will have classes online．

D．Beginners can learn Spanish．

Where might the text come from?

A．A travel guide．         B．A newspaper．  

C．A personal diary．        D．A textbook．k+s-5#u 

Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that fits the context．

Visit the Edinburgh Festival

       Every year, thousands of people come to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival．For three weeks every August and September the city is filled with actors and artists from    over the world．They come to Edinburgh     the biggest arts festival in Britain．During this time the streets of the city are alive with music and dance from   morning till late at night．You can even see artists painting pictures on the streets．One of the best parts of the Festival is the “Fringe”,  students do comedy shows in small halls and cafés．

          of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music performed by famous musicians．This year, you can see over five hundred performances  actors from more than forty countries．

       The tickets for these performances are quite cheap and it is usually easier to see your favorite stars in Edinburgh   it is in London．Come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember it can be difficult to find a room,     why not book your hotel now?

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie,“Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,”she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that“next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS.“I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

Liz wants moviegoers (who often see films) to come away with the idea that changing your life is“as simple as making a decision”.

In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

A．Her mother died of AIDS.                           B．She worked at a petrol station.

C．She got admitted into Harvard.                    D．The movie about her life was put on.

e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.  

A．b, a, e, c, d     B．a, b, c, e, d      C．e, d, b, a, c        D．b, e, a, d, c

The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B．what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C．why Liz loved her parents so much

D．how Liz struggled to change her life

What actually made her go towards her goal?

A．Envy and competition.                               B．Willpower and determination.

C．Decisions and understanding.                          D．Love and respect for her parents.

When she wrote“What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

A．she had little experience of social life

B．she could hardly understand the society

C．she would do something for her own life

D．she needed to travel more around the world

单词拼写（10分）

1.Is that seat already ___________? (占用)

2.Doing morning exercises surely has some _____________（有益的） effects on our health.

3.Usually people show great ___________（同情） for the children begging in the streets.

4.He was the only w___________(目击者) to that accident.

小题5】He was ___________（遗弃） by his cruel parents when born because of his disability.

5.The mountains are __________（反射） in the clear water, forming a pleasant picture.

6.You’d better ____________（适合） yourself to the life here as soon as possible.

7.Everybody is required to ____________（参加） in the spring outing.

8.Follow the doctor’s advice, ____________（否则） you’ll not get better soon.

9.The teacher ____________（推荐） the book written by Dickens to his students.

If you walk slowly through downtown Helsinki(赫尔辛基）during the day, taking in the splendid 19^th century buildings, white boats and noise of passing trams（有轨电车）, you will start to understand why it is called a city of two colors: white and blue.

The sea is always present in Helsinki. When you take a walk over the great open space of the central square, you will hear seabirds screaming. When you take the tram ,suddenly and unexpectedly, you are faced with a calm, shining blue sea. You may notice that people in Helsinki do not rush about as in other cities. Instead ,they walk along the roads, politely letting other people by.

An usual way to see Helsinki for the first time is to start out by the boats. You will walk by the elderly women selling fish and vegetables in the market square and find yourself in front of a beautiful park. You may enjoy a pleasant walk in the park for a few hours and then take the tram. Trams are the perfect way to get around（四处走动）in Helsinki. Watching the old houses, parks, theatres, churches, shops, restaurants and people in the streets, you may have a slightly sad film feeling to it.

The pale summer nights are another wonder in the city. Following the waterfront（滨水区）of the city after sunset, you couldn’t help stopping and listening to the sweet silence, interrupted only by the screaming seabirds and leaving fishing boats.

However, in some way. Helsinki is also the most modern city in northern Europe. You will surely want to visit the white Glass Palace, the modern art museum, and all those extremely popular cafes and design stores.

1.Helsinki is called a city of two colors mainly because of the colors of its ____________

A．19th century buildings, boats and parks

B．19th century buildings, boats and seabirds

C．old houses, parks and trams

D．old buildings, boats and the sea

2.The best way to see most of Helsinki is to go___________

A．by boat           B．by bus            C．by tram           D．on foot

3.The 19^th century buildings, the white Glass Palace, popular cafes and design shops in Helsinki  all show that Helsinki is __________

A．both splendid and traditional              B．both quiet and noisy

C．both historical and modern                D．both old and new

4.This passage is most likely to be found in___________

A．a story-book                           B．a geography textbook

C．a research report                       D．a travel magazine